Name: Semi-automatic
Duration: P00H01M57S
Description: Image: Statue of Liberty

Semi-automatic

from OPIATE OF THE MASSES by Charles Cicirella

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Image: Statue of Liberty

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Semi-automatic

The death of so many children should have changed everything
It in fact changed nothing
And we accept this as the new normal
And we throw up our hands in disgust as even background checks are shot full of holes

I don’t know what to do next
The emperor’s new clothes are even more impervious to blood and shit stains
I’m at a loss at how quickly we’ve become desensitized to the slaughter
America the Beautiful has always been a bloody, hopeful mess and to believe differently just makes you one more white, entitled, embittered hypocrite

We took out the Native Americans because we wanted what they had
Now our children are standing in the way of more bang for our buck
We haven’t lost touch with our identities because we’ve always been scabrous
I am unclean as my country turns me away for asking too many queer questions

I’m not a junkie
Not even a patriot whatever that means
But I can read the scrawling on the wall
And I know we’re down for the count and quickly turning comatose blue

Charles Cicirella
8/14/17